Nadeau was driving his aunt to Plainville so she could go swimming when the crash happened.

"I never would have thought a car could come out of nowhere," Nadeau said.

He suffered eight broken ribs and a broken shoulder blade in the crash and said he hopes to return to work as a school bus driver next month.

Police said Maddaloni failed to maintain her vehicles’ brakes so they were in good working order, knowingly operated her vehicle with defective equipment and she failed to perceive the risk of traveling down a steep hill without a proper braking system on her vehicle.

At the time of the crash, Maddaloni’s operators’ license was suspended and she should not have been operating her vehicle, police said.

She was booked on the arrest warrant at 9:19 a.m. on Tuesday, released on a court set $50,000surety bond and is scheduled to appear in Bristol Superior Court on Feb. 19.

Maddaloni was charged with manslaughter in the second degree, misconduct with a motor vehicle, operating with a suspended operator’s license, defective brakes and failure to obey a stop sign.